Malaysia

Malaysia's state investment company said Friday it plans to make Malaysia Airlines fully government owned, removing it from the country's stock exchange before carrying out an overhaul of the carrier that is reeling from double disasters.

In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine.

A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 295 passengers from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17, 2014. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and pro-Russian separatists have both denied responsibility.

As the investigation into the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, politicians, celebrities and commentators have taken to the Internet and airwaves to speculate. The latest development came March 20 in the form of two large pieces of floating debris in the southern Indian Ocean that investigators think could be related to the missing plane. A flurry of theories — ranging from an on-board electrical fire to suicide or terrorism — continues to build as authorities remain baffled.

Speculation about pilots’ involvement in the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet could lead travel security efforts to expand and cover crews in addition to passengers, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday.